Quantcast
Channel: firefighters – Workers Comp Insider
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

Heart attacks, vehicle accidents leading cause of firefighter deaths in 2007

In a recently issued study entitled On-Duty Firefighter Fatalities in the United States in 2007 (3.0 mb PDF), the United States Fire Administration (USFA) reported that there were 115 on-duty...

View Article


Health Wonk Review’s Recess Edition and news from the blogosphere

Congress may be on vacation but the dedicated health policy bloggers are certainly on the case so you should face no shortage of wonkery. Jaan Sidorov has posted the August Recess Edition of Health...

View Article


Ten Years After: the Worcester Cold Storage Fire

Most Massachusetts residents will recall how their heart sank 10 years ago upon hearing TV and radio reports of the on-the-job deaths of six firefighters in the Worcester Cold Storage fire. While...

View Article

Health Wonk Review and other workers comp news notes

Joe Paduda is the man of the moment. His Managed Care Matters blog is worth a regular perusal for the informed commentary he offers about the medical side of workers comp. Today, there’s twice as much...

View Article

Cavalcade of Risk & workers comp news briefs

It’s Cavalcade of Risk week and issue #122 is hosted by our friend David Williams at Health Business Blog – check it out! Industry pulse – Good news. Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information...

View Article


Annals of Fraud: Buffed, Ripped, Indicted

When we last left bodybuilding firefighter Felix Arroyo, his application for disability retirement ($65K per year, tax free) had been rejected and he had been offered back his (relatively light duty)...

View Article

Firefighter down: Another heartbreaking fatality in Worcester

Ironically, when we first learned about potential trouble with a three-decker fire in Worcester last week, we were in the process of gathering links about a recent NFPA report showing that firefighter...

View Article

News Roundup: Holiday Health Wonkery, Claims Webinar, Firefighter Hazards & more

Holiday Health Wonkery – Just a spoonful of latkes makes the medicine go down? Hank Stern hosts a Chanukah-themed Festival of Lights edition of Health Wonk Review at InsureBlog – it’s fun, interesting,...

View Article


Firefighter safety: tactics over traditions to reduce fatalities

Preliminary reports for 2012 show that there were 82 firefighter fatalities, the fourth consecutive year in which fatalities were 91 or under, in contrast with the decade prior when fatalities were all...

View Article


California fires: Response and recovery health hazards

In the wake of the devastating California fires, the massive debris field – formerly neighborhoods, homes and businesses – is now a toxic environmental brew that poses risks to cleanup and recovery...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live